The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.